Education

Ph.D. Princeton University, 1984

B.A. Norhtwestern University, 1977

Areas of Interest

Women in the Islamic World

Classical Islamic culture

The Crusades

Research and Teaching

Dr. Sanders is currently on leave from the history department as Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies. She teaches occasionally. She does not teach in the graduate program.

Selected Publications

Creating Medieval Cairo: Empire, Religion, and Architectural Preservation in Nineteenth-Century Egypt (The American University in Cairo Press, 2007)

Travelers in the Middle East Archive (co-PI). The Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA) is a digital archive that focuses on Western interactions with the Middle East, particularly travels to Egypt during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.